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IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHO YOU TALK TO by Chav Krishnajuti* (en català més avall)

A man goes into Freud’s office and Freud says how can I help you Mr. er….as he sheepishly slips the photo of his mother into the top drawer of his desk and the guy says Brown, Mr Freud and Freud coughs and says Doctor Freud and the guy says well I’ve got this little green man follows me around all day. Freud asks does he look like someone in the family and the man says well yes a bit like my sister. And Freud says I knew it you want to have sex with your sister and the guy says I’d never thought of that how terrible and leaves the consultancy and tries not to look at women or even men in the street ever again in case he feels guilty about liking them.

The same guy walks into Viktor Frankl’s office and Frankl looks at his papers and says ah yes Mr Brown isn’t it and shakes the guy’s hand. Viktor Frankl spent the second world war in a concentration camp because he was Jewish and what with all the inescapable hardships inevitably went on to conclude that if you were stuck in a place like that where at any moment they might take you off for a shower they could take everything away from you except your attitude. Anyway, so he asks the client what’s up and the guy tells him about the little green man following him around and chucking stones at him and making it difficult to start the car and Frankl tells him he could change his attitude to the little man and put up with it and that in time he might even be able to forgive him for being a total bastard pretending to be just doing his job.

Carl Jung is staring into space when the little green man guy goes into his office. Carl looks at his papers and says good morning Mr. Brown so you have something you’d like to talk about? And Mr Brown says yes Mr Jung there’s this little green guy follows me about and trips me up and stuff, you know, gets in the way, messes things up for me and Jung says how big is he? And the guy holds his hands about a foot apart and says like this. Jung sees the guy flick his eyes over to the right and asks him if the green guy is there and he says yes and Carl (whose mum was slightly off her rocker and saw spirits and things) says ah so he’s not just a dream then. Does he look bored says Jung and the bloke says yes he’s always bored that’s why he throws stones at me. Jung asks what they talk about and the guy says Talk? Yes says Jung don’t tell me you don’t talk and work stuff out together. Don’t you find him things to do I’m not bloody surprised he’s bored shitless wouldn’t you be? Ah right says the guy so I find him things to do? Yep says Jung, I dunno, maybe get him to think about things you haven’t got time for or go and talk to the little green lady that’s always following your neighbour lady around, when he gets back you can talk about what she said. Don’t talk out loud in public though, you’ll have to work out a sign language or symbols to use when you’re not alone but something simple so that people just think it’s a nervous tic you’ve got. Maybe shake your leg, bite your fingernails or just hum a special tune?

Like this:

Cognitive scientist Daniel Dennet hypothesizes that, by some mutation, a human being could be born that does not have “consciousness” but nevertheless acts exactly like a human being. This sort of animal is called a “zombie” in thought experiments in the philosophy of mind. This new animal would reproduce just as any other human and eventually there would be more of these zombies, because natural selection would favor them, since their design is a bit simpler. Eventually all “humans” would die out. So therefore, it is most likely that human beings (as we see them today) are actually zombies, who nevertheless insist they are conscious. It is impossible to know whether we are all zombies or not. Even if we are all zombies, we would refuse to believe it. And a small minority that were not zombies would probably think they were too, through social pressure and fear.